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  1. Re:what i would say on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    Only in an American society do you build a country with slavery, genocide and biological warfare and then have the gall to pretend that you have the moral high ground.

    Morality is a personal responsibility; what happened in the USA and the colonies is history and neither I nor the concept of the republican form of government is responsible. If you like straw men, then I can just hold up Somalia and the former Zaire as examples of why anarchy is a foolish ideology.

  2. Re:what i would say on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, I know someone who had that same attitude. He heard noises one night, saw a figure in his living room and opened fire. Guess who he shot? Some dumbass drunk high school student who thought he was crawling back into the open window at his parents house. Thankfully the kid lived, but can you imagine if he hadn't? Could you live with yourself if you killed someone who turned out not to be a threat to you?

    I own a few flashlights.

  3. Re:what i would say on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1
    (barely) Relevant to your sig:

    My father used to pass gas and blame it on imaginary animals. BRRRPPPP did you see that elephant run under my chair?

    "All right, dinner!... Oh, Lord, what happened in here?" "Mom, there's an elephant under Dad's chair." "Did you see it?" "No, but it lifted Dad up about two feet."

  4. Re:Not entirely on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    One thing I learned about the US that is hard to grasp for someone from say Holland is that there are areas in the US where you just can't buy produce. No vegetables.

    Sure, you can DRIVE to another area, but that costs money.

    This is utter bullshit. Really. The only place where you can't pull produce off a grocery shelf in the USA is out in country where we GROW it.

  5. Re:USA vs Europe on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    He lost his leg because he didn't see a doctor about the pain, and his reason for not seeing the doctor was that he was worried the visit would not be covered by his insurance.

    A GP visit is not only relatively inexpensive, but covered by even the stupidest insurance (except maybe HDHP, but you should use an HSA with them). Foolishness won't be corrected by universal health care.

  6. Re:Third World America on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    No, we'd have to be "finishing the job" that Jefferson did on France. You fail at geography.

  7. Re:Best health care system in the world! on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    You've been hitting on the Republican kool-aid.

    Not exactly; it sounds like he's acknowledging that the Bush administration didn't do much to encourage America's trust in its government. Maybe you've been hitting on the Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi Kool-Aid-- everyone you disagree with appears to be a Republican to you. Or a "evil monger".

  8. Re:CDC Data for Obesity on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    Let's start taxing encryption by the bit, public speech by the word, and blog posts by the OMGLOLWTF!!!!111

  9. Re:fun hacking? Er..no. Imagine the annoyance... on A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine · · Score: 1

    You can't beat the meters-per-grain efficiency of .30-06 ammo, BTW. It makes your Prius look like a Hummer. And when you hit your target, you often instantly curtail its ability to produce more carbon! HOW GREEN!

  10. Re:why would you ... on The Decline of the Landline · · Score: 1

    Pretty simple to fix. You can still buy dumb phones that don't need mains.

  11. Re:Does the US need this? on Japanese Political Candidates Go Dark Online · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can't wait until the compliance officers from the Ministry of Conveyance Adornment come around. I hope we don't get into an argument over whether ichthys stickers or "Spongebob" window shades constitute "regulated political speech".

  12. Re:Not the best choice of languages on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the GP post:

    In today's multi-level cache, highly pipelined CPU environment

    None of the CPUs you mentioned have those features.

  13. Re:Hrmm on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 1

    Ass Bennies?

  14. Re:Pardon? on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  15. Re:May I be the first to say... on Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? Just when the thread was starting to pickup.

  16. In reality... on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 1

    If this system were to go in place, Yahoo would be vilified and the program would be closed within weeks. Then a few months later, it would be resurrected as a new tax by the US government in a "cap and spam" bill.

  17. Re:Heh, heh, heh... on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 1

    I like how you confuse "conservationist" and "conservative", but were modded up for it.

  18. Re:Another liberal dream goes totalitarian on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Think about this for a sec on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 3, Funny

    This has worked for the last five years, and as a result it's fine and encouraged to smoke pot and drop acid all weekend long, even in front of event security (they do it too)

    I wouldn't think that hallucinating security personnel would be very effective.

  20. Murder, She Wrote on Crime Show Host Accused of Ordering Killings to Boost Ratings · · Score: 1

    I suspect this is similar to how Jessica Fletcher just HAPPENED to be around to solve all those murders.

  21. Re:Self-incrimination on Encryption? What Encryption? · · Score: 1

    I am happy for my country's courts to force people to disclose information, if what they are found to have breaks laws then they should be punished.

    See, in MY country, people are assumed innocent unless proven guilty. In yours, everyone is a criminal until he submits his entire life to the mercy of the state-- then prays that it rules in his favor.

  22. Re:Limits? on Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Strength? on Green Cement Absorbs Carbon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That sort of "thinking", as you call it, is prohibited in the New World Order... you Climate Change Denier!

  24. Re:Dumb. on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 1

    BTW, a note on your credit report does nothing for your credit score. The notes are effectively ignored.

  25. Re:Dumb. on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 1

    You're the second European in as many days to claim checks are dead. Again I have to ask, do repair men carry around plastic card swipers? Do they require cash on hand? Or do they just send a bill later for the full amount and hope for the best?